Sebastian Zoellner
John G Searle Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Professor of Biostatistics; Co-Director, Precision Health
Biostatistics
Public Health
PhD, University of Munich/Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Sebastian Zöllner is a Professor of Biostatistics. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Zöllner joined the University of Michigan after a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. His research effort is divided between generating new methods in statistical genetics and analyzing data. The general thrust of his work is problems from human genetics, evolutionary biology, and statistical population biology.
Projects:
co-director
University Affiliation(s)
Depression Center | MIDAS
Research Area(s)
Genetics / Genomics / other OMICS | Population Health
Publications
- Exome-wide Association Analysis Reveals Novel Coding Sequence Variants Associated with Lipid Traits in Chinese
- A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing
- Joint analysis of psychiatric disorders increases accuracy of risk prediction for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder
Grants
- Co-investigator of: Internship as a model to understand the genetics of stress-induced depression: a Brazilian extension of the Intern Health Study
- Mentor of: Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits Across Diverse Human Populations
- Co-investigator of: Remote Electronic Cohort to Observe Variations in Effects of COVID-19 Recovery (RECOVER)